Lot 393
Scrapbook of Pictures and Documents - Documentation of the Activities of the Agudath Israel Boys' and Girls' Youth Groups in Switzerland in 1935-1947
Scrapbook of pictures, postcards, inscriptions, documents and newspaper clippings, documenting the activities of the Agudath Israel social groups in Switzerland, between 1935-1947. German, with some Hebrew.
Notebook in which various pictures and documents were pasted, with handwritten inscriptions, headings and explanations. Handwritten "title page" at the beginning of the notebook: "Agudath Israel - In the spirit of Torah and tradition. If not for Torah, Heaven and earth would not exist". Below this inscription, two Agudath Israel stamps were pasted.
The scrapbook presents an interesting documentation of the activities of Agudath Israel in Switzerland. Most of the contents is connected to the groups in the Lucerne community - the local Agudath Israel group and the boys' and girls' youth groups. The name Erlanger is mentioned several times (the material was presumably collected by a member of the Erlanger family in Lucerne).
The scrapbook includes: official documents, newspaper clippings - reports of Agudath Israel activities, invitations to various events of the organization, pictures, original programs, certificates and the like, accompanied by handwritten titles, news items and explanations. Including: Original photograph of the Agudath Israel youth reunion in the Habsburg Castle on 9.6.1935; lengthy handwritten inscription with a newspaper clipping documenting the establishment of the Agudath Israel youth group in Lucerne on 14th Cheshvan 1935 (10.11.1935); dozens of invitations to Agudath Israel conventions in Lucerne; postcard invitation to a special convention in honor of the 100th Yahrzeit of the Chatam Sofer (on Motzaei Shabbat 6.1.1940), with the participation of the educator and author R. Zelig Schachnowitz; a postcard invitation to a eulogy on R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski in Lucerne (15.9.1940); and more.
A printed leaflet (4 pages, in German) is pasted at the beginning of the scrapbook. The leaflet is entitled: Statuten der schweizerischen Landesorganisation der "Agudas Jisroel" - Statutes of the Swiss Agudath Israel organization, from 1937. Bibliographically unknown (does not appear in the NLI catalog nor in OCLC).
The notebook contains documents and pictures up until 1941, and additional documents and pictures until 1947 are enclosed.
53 documents and postcards; 4 photographs; dozens of newspaper clippings (including pictures); several handwritten leaves. Size and condition vary.
